[TriLUG] Meeting 11 June: Open Source Your Phone!

[Bill Farrow via TriLUG]

Topic: Meeting 11 June: Open Source Your Phone!
Presenter: Randy Barlow
When: Thursday, 11 June 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm (6:45pm for pizza)
Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room TBD, Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC
Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm
Webpage: https://trilug.org/2015-06-11/oss-phone

Synopsis
Freedom and convenience are often at odds, especially in the modern
world of cloud computing and mobile devices. This talk will present
the speaker's journey from using a largely closed source, closed
protocol mobile platform to a much more free and open mobile operating
system. Due to the relationship between mobile and cloud computing, a
significant portion of the journey involved choosing free software for
the server side as well. Many challenges were faced along the way!
This talk will discuss the various free client and server software
components that were necessary to protect the speaker's privacy and
freedom, while maintaining a comparable level of service to that which
was enjoyed before. A few alternatives to these choices will also be
discussed, and during the Q+A session suggestions for competing
software will be welcomed.

Bio
Randy Barlow is a software engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He currently
works on the Pulp Project, a component of Red Hat Satellite 6 that
performs software repository management. He has been working with
Python since 2006 and has also worked with C++, Java, and PHP prior to
that. His experience includes scientific computing, natural language
processing, systems management, and web development. He is a Linux
geek and loves free software.